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Bristol's own Robin Cousins presents a tropical tribute to Barry Manilow

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:35:19 +0000

IT was a Copacabana of a night in Cardiff as Olympic champion Robin Cousins unveiled his latest ice extravaganza.

Katherine Jenkins tells Bristol 'I'm the happiest I've been in a long time'

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:57:52 +0000

GLOBAL singing sensation Katherine Jenkins raised the roof at Bristol’s Colston Hall on Monday night with her effortless style and girl nextdoor charm.

Nude impressions at the Theatre Royal

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:13:24 +0000

HOW FAR would you be ready to go for charity? Give up chocolate for a month? Quit smoking? How about taking your clothes off?

Rumbustious rendition of Shakespeare's 'most patriotic' play

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:21:24 +0000

OF THE many productions I have seen of this patriotic play by Shakespeare this was undoubtedly the most rumbustious. The emphasis is on the common soldiers whose voices and opinions are seldom silenced. Their frequent chants are closely allied to those 21st century sounds that we hear only too often. Yet I think Edward Hall’s arresting production is generally true to the spirit of the play with the nobles less prominent than usual in this martial world of blood and fury.

Review: Murder and mystery aplenty on board Agatha Christie classic

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:18:14 +0000

A CLASSIC from the Queen of crime arrived in Bath last night with all the melodrama and mystery you would expect from Agatha Christie.

Sodbury Players are Genie-us with a perfect panto

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:20:34 +0000

RIGHT then boys and girls, who needs something to cheer about on these wet and windy New Year nights? Well Sodbury Players has the perfect antidote to the January blues, oh yes they do, with an action-packed panto extravaganza.

Superior performance from the Sisters

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:21:04 +0000

SISTERS really were doing it for themselves at the Bristol Hippodrome last night, as Sister Act came to town on its first national tour.

Society's vivid programme ranges from Handel to Gershwin

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:11:59 +0000

Chipping Sodbury Music Society Handel to Gershwin was the wide-ranging programme vividly presented by the London Brass Symposium Quintet at the January concert in the Town Hall. Stuart Jenkins and Ian Lynch, trumpets, Gillian Jones, French horn, Andy Flaxman, trombone, and Mark Easener, tuba, all consummate musicians and masters of their instruments, got the concert off to a good start with an effervescent performance of George Speer’s sonata from "The Bench Singer" one of the earliest works specifically written for brass quintet. A challenging work by William Blezard, once an accompanist to Joyce Grenfell, gave the artists opportunity to show off their technical expertise unruffled by complex 20th century harmonies.

Children's thriller has a French connection

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:21:27 +0000

CHRISTMAS wouldn’t be Christmas for my family without an extra special story from Bristol playwright Hattie Naylor.

The season has started now that DMVC have sung for Christmas

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:36:09 +0000

SIMON Cowell, what are you thinking of? Don’t bother touring the country looking for the X Factor. It’s here in Dursley! Well, that’s certainly the view of the joyful audience who packed the Lister Hall at the weekend. For they know that Christmas never starts properly until Dursley Male Voice Choir have sung their hearts out at their spirit-lifting, foot-tapping, laughter-filled and even (occasionally) tear-jerking December concert. They’re men who are ordinary in the nicest of senses – men you probably wouldn’t look at twice in the street. But put them on stage, add Robert Burgess on piano and Barrie Cooper on podium (or, indeed, assistant musical director Brian Parslow), and the ordinary becomes very special indeed.